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Netflix is partnering with influential preacher-turned-producer DeVon Franklin to create a “faith-based feature” inspired by a COVID-19 recovery story of a Pastor in Northern Ireland.
According to Canada-based broadcaster CHVN-FM, the feature will be about Lee McClelland, a pastor from The Ark Church in Belfast, who was diagnosed and admitted to the Antrim Area Hospital in March last year with COVID-19.
When his health began deteriorating amid isolation, the pastor started feeling that he was approaching death.
It was then that a janitor, who worked at the hospital, came into his room and prayed over him.
The following day, he began to recover.
“God sent a cleaner,” Pastor Lee McClelland says in the original video. “I honestly didn’t know if I would make it or not,” he continues, and was “moments away from being put on a ventilator.”
McClelland says he experienced a “night from hell” and was losing hope when he prayed for God to lift his spirits and “supernaturally encourage me.”
McClelland’s testimony video on Facebook has received millions of views to date.
CHVN-FM reports that Karen Peterkin will oversee and executive produce for Franklin Entertainment. Randy Brown, who previously worked with Franklin on Miracles From Heaven, will write the screenplay.
